Do you look at things from the outward appearance? Not knowing that it is a matter of the heart, and the heart of the matter is what matters to GOD, not the outward appearance!………..lol~
(Jeremiah 17:9-10) The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it? I the LORD search the heart, I try the reins, even to give every man according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings.
For some strange reason religion has caused many people in the religion of Christianity, Judaism, Catholicism, The Hebrew Israelite religion, and Islam to become self-righteous, judgmental, hypocritical, and condemning when it comes to sinners, unbelievers, and believers who fall short of GOD’S glory in CHRIST JESUS!
And many of these people feel this way because they forgot where they came from, they forgot where GOD saved them from before they became self-righteous, and they forgot JESUS came to save sinners, not the self-righteous!
Brothers and sisters, The apostle Paul was a murderer who was persecuting the followers of JESUS, and the church of JESUS CHRIST, but GOD chose Paul to become one of his greatest apostles, and to write 14 books of the new testament, but GOD did not consult with the self-righteous folks who knew Paul as a murderer, a persecutor, and that he was persecuting the church of JESUS CHRIST, GOD chose Paul because of his heart, not his actions, and no man knows the heart of man, but GOD!
And GOD will pass over 100, 000 self-righteous Christians just to get to one sinner who has real faith In JESUS, and desires to know GOD through the revelation knowledge of JESUS CHRIST!
“IT’S A MATTER OF THE HEART!”
Brothers and sisters, some self-righteous religious folks can’t imagine why GOD would use people like you and me, but it’s GOD’S choice to use whomsoever he desires to use!
Some people are so self-righteous and religious, that they just cannot comprehend how GOD makes something work that’s not supposed to work, according to the carnal thoughts of carnal men!
Brothers and sisters, I am an ex drug dealer, gangster disciples, whore monger, 4 time felon, I been to jail for murder, I been to the penitentiary 3 different times in my life, I am an uneducated man, I have no formal education at all, and I am a career criminal, but GOD uses me, GOD chose me, and it has nothing to do with my past, my sins, my short comings, or my failures, but it has everything to do with my heart, and the revelation knowledge of GOD that lives within me!
Brothers and sisters, the reality of this word is this, the people you think GOD should not use are actually closer to GOD than you are, and the people you think are less righteous than you are actually more righteous and closer to GOD than you are!
It can be a rude awakening for anyone to find out that sinners and murderers like Paul, King David, Moses, and Reese Kemp are actually closer to GOD than you are, and it has nothing to do with them as individuals, but it has everything to do with their heart!
Because GOD called King David a man after his own heart, knowing King David was going to kill a man over his wife, commit adultery, fornication, deception, and murder!
Now do you look at things from the outward appearance? Not knowing that it is a matter of the heart, and the heart of the matter is what matters to GOD, not the outward appearance!………..HMMMMM~
(Acts 13:20-22) And after that he gave unto them judges about the space of four hundred and fifty years, until Samuel the prophet. And afterward they desired a king: and God gave unto them Saul the son of Cis, a man of the tribe of Benjamin, by the space of forty years.
And when he had removed him, he raised up unto them David to be their king; to whom also he gave testimony, and said, I have found David the son of Jesse, A MAN AFTER MINE OWN HEART, WHICH SHALL FULFILL ALL MY WILL.
(1 Samuel 16:7) But the LORD said unto the prophet Samuel, Look not on his countenance, or on the height of his stature; because I have refused him: for the LORD does not see as man sees; for man looks on the outward appearance, but the LORD looks on the heart.
(2 Corinthians 10:7) Do you look on things after the outward appearance? If any man trust to himself that he is Christ’s, let him of himself think this again, that, as he is Christ’s, even so are we Christ’s.
(Acts 9:10-16) And there was a certain disciple at Damascus, named Ananias; and to him said the Lord in a vision, Ananias. And he said, Behold, I am here, Lord.
And the JESUS said unto him, Arise, and go into the street which is called Straight, and enquire in the house of Judas for one called Saul, of Tarsus: for, behold, he prays, And hath seen in a vision a man named Ananias coming in, and putting his hand on him, that he might receive his sight.
Then Ananias answered, Lord, I have heard by many of this man, how much evil he has done to thy saints at Jerusalem: And here he has authority from the chief priests to bind all that call on thy name.
But JESUS said unto him, GO YOUR WAY: FOR HE IS A CHOSEN VESSEL UNTO ME, TO BEAR MY NAME BEFORE THE GENTILES, AND KINGS, AND THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL: FOR I WILL SHEW HIM HOW GREAT THINGS HE MUST SUFFER FOR MY NAME’S SAKE.